Electrical shooting board



Sept. 22 1925.

A RAUCH ELECTRICAL SHOOTING BOARD Filed March 23, 1922 w/rMssEs %MM/AQMLA IN VE N TOR ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 22, 1925.

UNITED ST ABRAHAM RAUCI-I, 013 NET/V YORK, N. Y.

ELECTRICAL SHOOTING BOARD.

Application filed March 23, 1922.

"1 '0 all 'LU/L/H'i'b it may concern.

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM Racer-i, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Electrical Shooting Board, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an electrical shooting board, and has for an object the provision of a shooting board which is adapted particularly for use in connection with amusement parks, and is presented in the form of a game in which a plurality of contestants may compete.

Another object resides in the provision of a simple construction and electrical cir cuit apparatus so that the operation requires a minimum amount of expenditure of time and labor in the construction and in the repair of the device.

A further object resides in the provision of such an electrical combination of apparatus as will insure an elficient operation at all times.

A still further object resides in the provision of a combination of elements whereby Whenever a successful shot is made a light will be lit and permanently retained in its lighted condition until its circuit is opened, to indicate the fact that such a shot has been made.

Another object resides in the particular construction and arrangement of parts which are hereinafter described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings, of which Figure l is a front view of the board with the parts cut away.

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a circuit diagram of the apparatus.

The form of the invention shown in the drawings is a preferred form, although it is understood that modifications in the con struction and arrangement of the parts and in the character of the materials used may be adopted without departing from the spirit of the invention.

1 provide, in accordance with the preferred application of my invention,"a board in the form of a receptacle or body portion Serial No. 56,147.

1 which has a cover or door 2 pivoted thereto. The body portion or KOUQPiZZUZlO has disposed on its rear inner face 3 blurality of pairs of contacts a and 5 in the form of spring plates which are spaced one back of the other, closely adjacent, so that when one plate is moved ever so slightly it will contact with the other and make an electrical circuit which plOpQl'lf/ connected to these plates. Each pair of plates is disposed back of an aperture, such as (3, in the door or cover of the board.

The main idea of the game is for the player to aim so accurately that the mi's sile will enter the aperture 6 and strilce the first contact 5. The upper edge of the door or cover 2 is provided with a plurality of openings, such as the rcctangi'llar openings 7, in ivhich suitable transparencies, such as glass 8, may be disposed; and back of these openings 7 are disposed lamps 9, preferably supported on a shelf 10 fastened to the box or receptacle 1 in any desired manner. There are as many apertures or openings 7 as there are apertures or openings 6, and corresponding thereto, as many lamps 9 as there are openings 6. The openings ('3 are numbereiil in any desired manner, and the transparencies S are also provided with numbers corresponding to the numbers of the openings 6. l/Vhenever a missile enters any opening, which corresponds to a bulls eye or perfect hit, the lamp corresponding to that opening is illuminated.

The illumination of the lamp is effected in the following manner, as illustrated in the circuit diagram shown in Fig. 4. A. battery 11 is provided, and one side of it is connected respectively through the wires 12, 13, 14 and 15 to the respective contacts 5. The respective contacts 4 are connected by wires 16, 17, 18 and 19 to a plurality of automatic electrical drops, such as 20, the other sides of which are connected tothe battery. Therefore, whenever any pair of contacts 4 and 5 are brought together by the impact of a missile, the circuit tl'u'ough the battery 11 and the drops 20 momentarily closes for a suflicient length of time, whereby the drop will actuate to close another circuit through the battery, the drop and wires such as 531, 22, 23 and 24 leading to the respective lamps 9, the other sides of the lamps being connected by a wire 25 to the other side of the battery 11.

that a particular bulls eye aperture has been entered by a missile. The drops 20 are of any standard type, the particular construction of them not being important except that the energization of them inoinentarily will cause a shutter or bar to drop and make a permanent closure. This closed circuit established by drops can then be opened by restoring the drops to their normal position.

will thus seen that have provided a simple and eliicient apparatus the door 2 being so pivoted that it can be opened to remove the missiles or other debris from within the cabinet. If desired, the cabinet may have no bottom, so that the missiles can drop out of the cabinet and be collected in any suitable receptacle. By

merely opening the door, access can be bail to the interior. The simplicity of the device and the circuits involved render the liability of getting out of repair practically negligible.

lVhat I claim is:

An electrical shooting board which coinprises a cabinet having a pivoted door or cover in Which a plurality of bulls eye apertures are located, a plurality of pairs of spring contact plates disposed on the rear Wall of the board or receptacle bacx of the bulls eye apertures, a shelf in the upper portion or the board, a plurality of lamps mounted on the shelf, said board having: a plurality of openings along the upper edge of the door in front 01 the lamps, and a transparency in each of said lamp openi having a number thereon corresponding til the numbers disposed adjacent each oi? the bulls eye openings.

ABRAHAM RAUCH. 

